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<p> Cleaver, [[William]] (1), D.D., </p> <p> an English prelate, was born in 1742. He was educated at the University of Oxford; became prebendary of [[Westminster]] in 1784; principal of Brazenose [[College]] in 1785; bishop of [[Chester]] in 1787, was translated: to [[Bangor]] in 1800; to St. [[Asaph]] in 1806 and died May 15,1815. [[Bishop]] Cleaver was able [[Greek]] scholar and an orthodox divine. He published De Rhythmo Graecorum Liber -(Lond. 1789. 8vo): — Sermons (1773, 1791, 1794): — a collection of his own and his father's sermons (1808, 8vo) Sermons on Select Subjects (8vo): — A List of Books Recommended. to the [[Clergy]] and Younger-Students in [[Divinity]] (Oxford, 1791, 8vo; 3d ed. enlarged, with Doworth's Catalogue of the [[Christian]] Writers and Genuine Works of the First Three Centuries, 1808, 8vo). See-(Lond.) Annual Register, 1815, p. 125; Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and. Amer. Authors. </p>
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<p> Cleaver, [[William]] (2), </p> <p> Wesleyan. [[Methodist]] minister, was born at [[Trinidad]] in 1818. He was converted under the ministry of William Moister, in Port of Spain; offered himself for the ministry in 1840; left many :enduring monuments of his labors during his thirty-five years work among the West Indian colonies, and died in his native island April 19,1878. See Minutes of the British Conferences 187-8, p. 55. </p>
 
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William Cleaver [1]

Cleaver, William (2),

Wesleyan. Methodist minister, was born at Trinidad in 1818. He was converted under the ministry of William Moister, in Port of Spain; offered himself for the ministry in 1840; left many :enduring monuments of his labors during his thirty-five years work among the West Indian colonies, and died in his native island April 19,1878. See Minutes of the British Conferences 187-8, p. 55.

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